[danielhodgins]

To do you need to understand. To do you need to know. This is where insightful teachers like Eric Ries and Steve Blank add value.

I understand your point, but it's also inefficient to put the pedal to the medal and spin your tires endlessly without having any strategy behind your activity.

The whole point of lean startup is to achieve order of magnitude gains of efficiency by focusing on finding out what customers want sooner rather than later.

For those that aren't 'doing'- that's their problem. Eric's work is for doers.